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Ongoing targets
1. Update and develop the detail on the detailed proposal espec. institutional context and sources
2. Think ahead to planning the focus group
3. Finalise film clip decisions and start textual analysis

'Carnival of Cruelty' by Tom Mes for Fangoria

Fangoria is an American Horror film fan magazine that has been in regular publiaction since 1979. In Number 206, there was a feature run on the films of Takashi Miike focusing on his two latest offerings 'Dead Or Alive' and 'Audition'.
On 'Audition' Miike refers to how it is the 'human aspect that makes the story so horrific'
'Normally when people go to see a horror movie, they know that the sacry element is a speacial thing that does not exist in real life, like a ghost or a monster. Thats why they can enjoy it'

Japanorama interview

This interview with Miike Takashi for Japanorama as the director discusses his view on 'Audition' and how it is important for Western wudiences as well as how the extremities in his films are perceived